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Tuberculosis.
Tables H, H (i) and H (2) set out the summary of the notifications
(both compulsorily notified and voluntarily reported or heard of
from other sources under (a) age periods and (b) registration subdistricts,
with reference to pulmonary and other forms of tuberculosis.
There has been a steady decrease of official notifications as there has
been in connection with the deaths registered from the same disease.
Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme.
The Lambeth Scheme was completed by the re-organisation and
enlargement of the staff in connection with the Central Dispensary
(73, Effra Road, Brixton), in 1920 (March—April), and consists of 2
Tuberculosis Dispensaries (a Central and a Branch).
The statistics at the Central Dispensary form a satisfactory record
of work done under the Council's (a) Tuberculosis Officer (Dr.
Richardson) and (b) Lady Secretary and Social Worker (Miss D. Scott
Baker), and the rest of the staff. Miss Baker is responsible for the
"after care" organisation in the outer (Southern Districts)'of the
Borough, necessitating, during 1925, 45 special personal visits being
made by Miss Baker to the homes of patients.†
Special interviews given to patients and relatives at the Central
Dispensary in connection with assessment after-care, amount to large
numbers. Thus, during 1925, 192 cases were personally assessed by
Miss Scott Baker for the purpose of arranging sanatorium treatment
through the London County Council, involving the actual collection
and transmission to that body of a sum of £684 8s. 5d.
The work of the Branch Dispensary Staff under Dr. Hebert as
Tuberculosis Officer with the help of an assistant Tuberculosis
Officer (for Home visiting), and Miss Cummins, the Lady Almoner at
St. Thomas's Hospital, and the rest of the staff, has also been satisfactory.
This is work that the Borough Council is responsible for, and
which is carried out by the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital,
hitherto at their own expense, but is now paid for by a Borough
Council grant *(since January 1st, 1924), under a contract approved by
† These personal visits are in addition to attendances made at the Committees
of the Invalid Children's Aid Association, Emergency Help Fund Committee of the
British Red Cross and Springwell House Committee, on ali of which Committees
Mi-s Baker serves in an official.capacity.
* The grant is £1500 per annum (half repayable to the Council by the Ministry of
Health and quarter by the London County Council).